One of my favorite Martha Stewart Living Magazine Covers is the one with her Easter Tree on the front.
I was in the cross stitch aisle at the craft store the other day and was struck by all the beautiful colors they have available. I remembered those wrapped eggs from Martha Stewart and thought I would give it a whirl. After a few eggs..I finally got the hang of it:)
Here is her tutorial..she uses embroidery thread and Styrofoam eggs. I used cross stitch floss and plastic eggs.
Here's what you need:
-plastic eggs
-cross stitch floss
-modge podge
-scissors
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| start with using a generous amount of modge podge on the top of the egg with a paint brush. About a nickel size glob. |
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| Lay the end of the cross stitch floss in the modge podge. Let it get pretty saturated. With the end of your paint brush start twirling until you get a good circle started. |
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| Start wrapping the floss around until you have a tight circle going. |
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| Continue to add more modge podge as you go. |
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| Once your upper layers have started to set, brush a generous amount of the modge podge on top of the floss. |
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| Keep going until you get down to the seam of the egg (about half way). I used a bottle cap to hold it while it dried. |
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| Once dried, start on the other side following the same steps. |
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| Keep going until your seams meet. You may have to do a bit of overlapping, but the more I did, the better I got at them matching up perfectly. |
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| I added some buttons on the bottom with hot glue so they can stand up on there own. |
I love how they turned out! They are super fun to do!
Have fun! And as always...celebrate perfectly!
Stephanie
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